•  Interview : Laurent Ballesta: “What Motivates Me is Mystery”
•  Exhibition : “Marc Riboud Was Not a War Reporter”
•  Exhibition : Zanele Muholi: The Self and the Body
•  Exhibition : Oli Kellett: Weightless Moments
•  Exhibition : Paris, Land of Exile and Creation
•  Archives : Traveling to Space From Your Backyard

Laurent Ballesta: “What Motivates Me is Mystery”

Today, as part of the competition to win his Nikon D5, Laurent Ballesta tells Blind about the story behind the iconic images from 700 Sharks in the Night, produced in Fakarava, French Polynesia.

By Jonas Cuénin

“Marc Riboud Was Not a War Reporter”

To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, which ended on April 30, 1975, the Guimet Museum in Paris and the Friends of Marc Riboud Association are revisiting the French photographer’s work in the Land of the Dragon. On view until May 12, 2025.

By Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman

Zanele Muholi: The Self and the Body

The Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City presents “Sawubona,” an exhibition of South African artist and visual activist Zanele Muholi, bringing together five key series that explore Black queer identity through collaborative portraiture.

By Gaia Squarci

Oli Kellett: Weightless Moments

Oli Kellett’s new series “Fountains,” exhibited at HackelBury gallery in London, uses water droplets as inspiration to create surrealist photographs, drawing on historical painters and art movements.

By Gaia Squarci

Paris, Land of Exile and Creation

This is a Paris we rarely hear about. The Paris of voluntary or forced exile, of suitcases left in transit, of words cast like anchors into the Seine. “Paris Noir” (Black Paris), an exhibition at the Clémentine de la Féronnière gallery, unravels the threads of this scattered but essential memory: that of artistic circulations and African and Afro-descendant diasporas between 1950 and 2000, embodied by three photographers who were united by nothing but continents—George Hallett, William Melvin Kelley, James Barnor—but united by everything: exile, resistance, beauty.

By Norah Auger

Looking at Iraq Through the Eyes of Civilians

Disposable cameras tell the story of Iraq and the problems the country has faced in trying to rebuild itself.

By Robert E. Gerhardt